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Randy Adderson is Bob's best friend; he is a fellow Soc. After Bob's death, Randy stops Pony on the street and tells him that the fighting between the Socs and the greasers is pointless. Randy refuses to fight in the big rumble because "Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs." Out of friendship, Randy comes to visit Pony ...
Randy leaves Bob behind and this is a critical moment for Randy's character—this moment has a significant impact on his views and thus contributes heavily to his decision not to fight.
Ponyboy wonders if Bob’s parents hate him, saying he prefers their hatred to their pity. Looking at the photograph and remembering conversations with Cherry and Randy, Ponyboy concludes that Bob was cocky, hot-tempered, frightened, and human. Randy arrives at the house to talk to Ponyboy and behaves with shocking insensitivity.
Sick about the violence and Bob’s death, Randy says he does not intend to fight at the rumble. Randy explains that Bob was his best friend, a good guy with a terrible temper and overly indulgent parents. Ponyboy feels reassured by his talk with Randy and realizes that Socs can be human and vulnerable. Summary: Chapter 8
At lunch that day, Ponyboy, Two-Bit, and Steve go to a neighborhood store for candy and soda. While there, three Socs confront Pony and accuse him of killing Bob. Ponyboy, feeling nothing, neither fear nor anger, breaks the glass soda bottle he's holding and threatens the Socs with the jagged end until they back off.
Summary. Ponyboy sits in the waiting room with Darry and Soda, who is entertaining the reporters and policemen by acting silly. Jerry Wood tells Ponyboy that the reporters wouldn't have been taking so many pictures if his older brothers weren't so handsome. But soon the boys become tired, and Soda lies down to fall asleep.
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A blast from a car horn alerts them that the blue Mustang is near. The boys realize that they are outnumbered as five Socs climb out of the car, including Bob and Randy, Cherry's and Marcia's boyfriends. These Socs had threatened Two-Bit, Johnny, and Ponyboy earlier in the evening when they found them walking with Cherry and Marcia.
